[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 101 (Thursday, May 26, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30440-30441]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-10496]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[R08-OAR-2005-UT-0005; FRL-7916-9]


Adequacy Determination for the Ogden City Area Carbon Monoxide 
Maintenance State Implementation Plan for Transportation Conformity 
Purposes; State of Utah

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of adequacy.

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SUMMARY: In this document, EPA is notifying the public that we have 
found that the motor vehicle emissions budget for 2021 in the Ogden, 
Utah Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan, that was submitted by Utah 
Governor Olene S. Walker on November 29, 2004, is adequate for 
transportation conformity purposes. 40 CFR 93.118(e)(2) requires that 
EPA declare an implementation plan submission's motor vehicle emissions 
budget adequate for conformity purposes prior to the budget being used 
to satisfy the conformity requirements of 40 CFR part 93. As a result 
of our finding, the Wasatch Front Regional Council of Governments, the 
Utah Department of Transportation and the U.S. Department of 
Transportation are required to use the motor vehicle emissions budget 
from this submitted maintenance plan for future transportation 
conformity determinations.

DATES: This finding is effective June 10, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeffrey Kimes, Air & Radiation Program 
(8P-AR), United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, 999 
18th Street, Suite 300, Denver, Colorado 80202-2466, (303) 312-6445, 
[email protected].
    The letter documenting our finding is available at EPA's conformity 
Web site: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/transp/conform/adequacy.htm.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document ``we'', ``us'', or 
``our'' are used to mean EPA.
    This action is simply an announcement of a finding that we have 
already made. We sent a letter to the Utah Division of Air Quality on 
May 2, 2005, stating that the motor vehicle emission budget in the 
submitted Ogden, Utah Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan is adequate. 
This finding has also been announced on our conformity Web site at 
http://www.epa.gov/otaq/transp/conform/adequacy.htm.
    Transportation conformity is required by section 176(c) of the 
Clean Air Act. Our conformity rule requires that transportation plans, 
programs, and projects conform to SIPs and establishes the criteria and 
procedures for determining whether or not they demonstrate conformity. 
Conformity to a SIP means that transportation activities will not 
produce new air quality violations, worsen existing violations, or 
delay timely attainment of the national ambient air quality standards.
    The criteria by which we determine whether a SIP's motor vehicle 
emission budgets are adequate for conformity purposes are outlined in 
40 CFR 93.118(e)(4). Please note that an adequacy review is separate 
from our completeness review, and it also should not be used to 
prejudge our ultimate approval of the SIP. Even if we find a budget 
adequate, the SIP could later be disapproved, and vice versa.
    The process for determining the adequacy of a transportation 
conformity budget is described at 40 CFR 93.118(f).
    For the reader's ease, we have excerpted the motor vehicle emission 
budget from the Ogden, Utah Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan and it is 
as follows: Motor vehicle emissions budget for the year 2021 is 73.02 
tons per day of CO. 40 CFR 93.118(e)(1) requires that previously 
approved budgets for years other than 2021 must still be used in any 
conformity determination until the maintenance plan is fully approved 
by EPA.


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    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.

    Dated: May 10, 2005.
Robert E. Roberts,
Regional Administrator, Region VIII.
[FR Doc. 05-10496 Filed 5-25-05; 8:45 am]
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